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Determine which punctuation rule is illustrated by the following sentence.

At our company retreat, I met employees from Tempe, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; and Honolulu, Hawaii.

a. Use a colon to join closely related independent clauses.
b. Use a semicolon to separate items in a series when one or more of the items contain internal commas.
c. Use a colon to separate items in a series when one or more of the items contain internal commas.

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Answer: b. Use a semicolon to separate items in a series when one or more of the items contain internal commas.

Explanation:A semicolon is used here to separate temp Arizona from Denver and Colorado and this from Honolulu and Hawaii which all have internal commas.

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